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I'm really digging WPF these days.  While there are a lot of cool technologies out there, WPF seems to offer a lot of promise for desktop apps or even apps running within Internet Explorer when .NET 3.0 is installed on the client. 

Simon Allardice (one of the cool/smart people I work with at Interface Technical Training) showed me a great WPF application today from the British Library that allows people to inspect some really old books and documents.  I've always enjoyed Mozart's compositions (I enjoy writing music on an amateur scale) and have been checking out some of his manuscripts. 

The application has some great page turning animations, supports zooming, audio, and is really easy to use.  Although I'm sure it was a lot of work to build the application, building it prior to WPF would've been much more work I suspect.  If you're interested in checking out the application and have .NET 3.0 installed on your system, browse to the following URL:

http://ttpdownload.bl.uk/browserapp.xbap